Radio Episode entitled (The role of protection committees in priority gatherings in support of women’s issues)

Day: Thursday Date: 8/8/2019 – Nisaa FM Radio
Ramallah – Nisaa FM- ADWAR Association organized, on Thursday, in cooperation with Radio Nisaa FM, a radio episode highlighting the reality of the life of Bedouin women in different Bedouin communities and success stories in Bedouin communities in an effort to improve the reality of Bedouin women. Women in priority gatherings.
The workshop is part of the program “ADWAR accountable Decision Makers about Their Role in Empowering Women in Bedouin Communities”, as part of the project “Towards Women who lead Change in Priority Communities and Making a Difference in Their Lives and the Life of Others” funded by the Dutch government and in partnership with local councils. Bedouin in Bethlehem, Ramallah and Nisaa FM radio.
The project succeeded in activating the role of Bedouin women by forming committees of women protection members in these gatherings, launching initiatives to improve the reality of women in them, and establishing an effective female leadership body capable of expressing the needs of Bedouin women to decision makers.
The seminar highlighted the lives of Bedouin women in the various Bedouin communities.These communities face challenges and obstacles that negatively affect the lives of women and their population, requiring the intervention of the relevant authorities to improve their life services.
From her part,a member of the Women’s Protection Committee, said that the community suffers from a continuous lack of basic services of electricity and water, adding to the problem of transportation where there is no transportation enabling the people of the community, especially women to reach the centers of cities and towns, which reflected negatively on the education of girls, where a number of girls succeeded in the assembly high school but because of the lack of transport to go to universities were unable to complete their studies.
She continued, after working with ADWAR and implementing some projects in the gathering of a kindergarten with 24 children and three teachers, which provided a safe environment for the education of children. He pointed out that there are tendencies to establish agricultural projects for women of the community to help them to improve their living conditions.
For her part, Saliha ALMa’azi, the head of the women’s protection committee in ALMa’azi gathering, spoke about the reality of women in the gathering, which lacks many services that negatively affect the lives of women, and the role of the protection committee to ask decision makers to provide their needs. AlMa’azi expressed her thanks to ADWAR Association for providing assistance to the gathering, especially in providing food parcels and providing stationery for kindergarten.
Meanwhile, the head of the Women’s Protection Committee in Jala Bedouin community, located north of Hebron near Beit Ummar town, Hana Farajin, talked about the reality of women in the community and the difficult challenges faced by Bedouin women in the presence of problems with basic services, such as lack of electricity. These problems were highlighted in cooperation with ADWAR Association.
She pointed out that there has been a request for two years from the Ministry of Education to provide a bus to transport students to the town of Beit Ummar She pointed out that ADWAR provided food assistance to the gathering in addition to helping us to ask the official authorities to provide services, including improving communication services.
Dr.Sahar Alkawasmeh, ADWAR’s General Director , said that the project succeeded in establishing an effective female leadership body capable of expressing the needs of Bedouin women to decision makers and launching feminist initiatives that improved the reality of Bedouin communities. “The committees are able to continue to demand their needs.”
She pointed out that this project succeeded in making a difference in the reality and conditions of life of these communities. On the extent to which the government and decision makers respond to the demands of these gatherings, she noted that we have seen cooperation, but there are some demands that these bodies could not provide for financial reasons.